Background Info/Introduction

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BACKGROUND INFO

This is a placeholder thread. It will eventually contain some vague info about the game setting, world, and the Masters' Disappeareance.

There will also be a post which will talk about your Master and your character's initial conditions.
However, I'd rather wait for you all to finish creating your characters first.

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THE WORLD

It is said that only the Masters themselves know their origins and real purposes - and they're not telling.

What is commonly known, however, is that they have ruled and shaped significants parts of the world from their magical citadels for a long, long time - as far as any human living under them can remember.

With their immense powers they have created or modified whole species for their own purposes, sometimes growing particularly attached to specific individuals and giving them special training, artifacts and knowledge, together with authority over their lesser brethren.
These choosen few - who could rightly be called demigods - are known as the First.

Some masters have many Firsts, some only a few. Some may have none at all - perhaps simply not caring, or being afraid that of giving that sort of power to a lesser being.

Other than great magical and physical powers surpassing those of any mortal sorcerer or warrior, the Masters do not have much in common with each other. They all have their own goals and individual personalities - in a way, they are not too unlike humans. Thus, they do not get along particularly well - rivalries and feuds are quite frequent, as are bloody wars.

The Masters have to worry about more than just each other: they also share the world with demons, spirits and inhuman eldritch races which lived and prospered well before their arrival.
Most of them think of the Masters as dangerous upstarts - but they have not yet openly waged war against them, for reasons of their own.

Perhaps this might change soon, for the Masters have been growing bolder and more ambitious in the last century, taking more and more land from the primal wilderness in which their predecessors live.